From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262105AbVDLKbL (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:31:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262123AbVDLKbK (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:31:10 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52423 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262105AbVDLKax (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:30:53 -0400 Message-Id: <200504121030.j3CAUmxl005155@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Subject: [patch 011/198] Fix get_compat_sigevent() To: torvalds@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net From: akpm@osdl.org Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:30:42 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "David S. Miller" I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Anyways, obvious memset()'ing of incorrect pointer. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/kernel/compat.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/compat.c~fix-get_compat_sigevent kernel/compat.c --- 25/kernel/compat.c~fix-get_compat_sigevent 2005-04-12 03:21:06.070214088 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/kernel/compat.c 2005-04-12 03:21:06.074213480 -0700 @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ long compat_sys_clock_nanosleep(clockid_ int get_compat_sigevent(struct sigevent *event, const struct compat_sigevent __user *u_event) { - memset(&event, 0, sizeof(*event)); + memset(event, 0, sizeof(*event)); return (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, u_event, sizeof(*u_event)) || __get_user(event->sigev_value.sival_int, &u_event->sigev_value.sival_int) || _